Surbhi Suhane, Author at Sixsigma DSI

SSDSI Helped the Nurses’ Health Studies Improve Operations and Research Data Quality

In the published paper, the authors state they are unaware of any prior published literature describing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) applied to non-clinical-trial epidemiologic research operations. That distinction matters: this is not simply a customer success story. It...

Diffusion of Innovation: Adopter Categories & Six Sigma Use

Diffusion of Innovation is a theory, developed by communication scholar Everett Rogers in 1962, explaining how new ideas, products, or practices spread through a population over time, not all at once, but in a predictable sequence across five distinct groups....

Six Sigma Certification for Managers: Which Level Fits Your Role

The right Six Sigma certification for a manager depends on whether you’ll actually run improvement projects or sponsor them. A department manager expected to personally lead a defined improvement project should typically pursue Green Belt certification. A senior...

Enterprise Lean Transformation Training: Why Most Efforts Fail

Enterprise Lean transformation is a company-wide, sustained shift in how an organization solves problems and pursues continuous improvement, not a single project or a department-level initiative. It matters because most attempts at this scale fail: McKinsey’s...

Layered Process Audit (LPA): Layers, Frequency, and CQI-8

A Layered Process Audit (LPA) is a quality verification method where different levels of an organization, operators, supervisors, plant managers, and sometimes executives, each audit the same critical process steps at their own frequency. It matters because it catches...